Basic Authentication is not working

[#1]

@babu kesavan

I have created Proxy API for my webservice and enabled basic authentication.. but when I tested this proxy API, even when I am passing invalid credentials to Basic Authentication it is allowing to access my service.. Can you please help me on this.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hello Babu,

The preferred authentication scheme is OAuth1 or OAuth2, using tokens rather than user names and passwords. The documentation for this can be found here: http://apigee.com/docs/api-services/content/oauth-home. There are a number of advantages of using OAuth over password security. OAuth1 in particular, can be implemented quite easily and uses only the Verify Access Key policy to secure your API. I hope that you can possibly move to this strategy because it has many advantages.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Hello Babu,

The preferred authentication scheme is OAuth1 or OAuth2, using tokens rather than user names and passwords. The documentation for this can be found here: http://apigee.com/docs/api-services/content/oauth-home. There are a number of advantages of using OAuth over password security. OAuth1 in particular, can be implemented quite easily and uses only the Verify Access Key policy to secure your API. I hope that you can possibly move to this strategy because it has many advantages.

[#4]

Thanks for your information

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hi Babu, this might be late, but if you want to try a Node.js API Proxy enable with Basic Authentication. Try this code sample.